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The Safety Gambit

The Safety Gambit

By: Lindsay Polic
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Welcome to The Safety Gambit, an exploration of the risks we take as humans and the culture of safety we create at home and at work. Hosted by Lindsay Polic, a certified safety professional for more than 20 years, The Safety Gambit invites you to take a more curious and holistic approach to transforming the culture of safety in your life, including bringing awareness to the impact of our safety decisions, the safety of workplaces, the emotional and physical safety of our spaces, and the philosophy of safety. On the show, Lindsay and other safety experts and like-hearted individuals will ask questions like: What is your personal risk level? Why do companies take risks to short cut regulatory safety obligations? What is the cost of the humans doing the work? Why do humans take risks to short cut safety outside of the workplace? We connect, educate, and empower you to enact change and create transformation around safety for your family, communities, and workplaces. Let’s discover The Safety Gambit in your life!Music by TimTaj. Artwork by Chris Polic. Edited by Nōn Wels.© 2025 The Safety Gambit Career Success Economics Personal Development Personal Success Social Sciences
Episodes
  • A Pause and Holiday Reflections
    Dec 18 2025

    On episode 77 of The Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay reflects back on her experience with the podcast, what she's learned, holiday safety gambits, and what the future holds for The Safety Gambit!

    In this episode, I cover:

    • An unexpected thing I learned doing this podcast.
    • The holiday safety gambits you should pay careful attention to.
    • What's next for the podcast.
    • And so much more.

    Want to join the podcast? Lindsay is looking for guests, from industry experts to everyday folks! Contact Lindsay here.

    Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart.

    Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Thanks for listening!

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    10 mins
  • The Four Os: Observation, Open Questions, Opportunity, and Outcomes (with Radhika Dutt)
    Dec 4 2025

    On episode 76 of The Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by Radhika Dutt, author of Radical Product Thinking, to explore the Four Os: Observation, Open Questions, Opportunity, and Outcomes.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • Radhika's OHLA framework: objectives, hypotheses, learnings, adaptations.
    • How product disease creeps in.
    • The key to showing up with curiosity in your solution discovery.
    • An illusion of performance.
    • And an in-depth look at the Four Os: what's the Observation? What are the Open questions? What is the Opportunity? What are the Outcomes?
    • And so much more.

    Radhika Dutt helps transform organizations to innovate smarter and truly optimize performance—not by chasing goals but by driving vision. Connect with Radhika on LinkedIn, and explore the Radical Product and OHLS toolkits here.

    Want to join the podcast? Lindsay is always looking for guests, from industry experts to everyday folks! Contact Lindsay here.

    Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart.

    Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Thanks for listening!

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    43 mins
  • How Good Can It Get? (with Dr. Valerie Rein)
    Nov 13 2025

    On episode 75 of The Safety Gambit podcast, Lindsay is joined by Dr. Valerie Rein, author of Patriarchy Stress Disorder, to explore the patriarchy and its oppressive impact on the safety of women.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • How good can it really get for you?
    • Intergenerational oppression of the patriarchy.
    • Why, as Dr. Valerie says, "women don't really know what safety feels like."
    • How safety connects to the nervous system and state of relaxation.
    • And so much more.

    Dr. Valerie Rein is a psychologist who has coined Patriarchy Stress Disorder® (PSD) and helps women achieve their ultimate success, happiness, and fulfillment by healing generational, collective imprints of oppression.

    She holds an EdM in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University and a PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Dr. Valerie's unique methodology for guiding women's journeys of "how good can it get?" is grounded in her doctoral research on transformation.

    Her bestselling book, Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment, has been heralded by reviewers as "the most important body of literary work of our modern times" and "perhaps the most important book of the century for women."

    Download the first chapter of Dr. Valerie's book, Patriarchy Stress Disorder, on her website DrValerie.com.

    To get in touch with Dr. Valerie, email team@drvalerie.com.

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    Want to join the podcast? Lindsay is always looking for guests, from industry experts to everyday folks! Contact Lindsay here.

    Lindsay Polic, the host, is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, international health coach, child passenger safety technician (car seats!), and certified safety professional with over 20 years of experience. She likes to say that she offers regulatory compliance with heart.

    Learn more about Lindsay and connect with the show at LindsayPolic.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram @TheSafetyGambit. And please rate, review, share, and subscribe! Thanks for listening!

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    53 mins
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